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Laila Omar is a Fung Global Fellow (Postdoctoral Research Associate) at Princeton University, with primary research interests in international migration and qualitative methods. More specifically, she is interested in the integration process of refugee and immigrant mothers and youths from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) in North America. She earned her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Toronto in 2023. Her thesis, “Times of Uncertainty and Future Projections for Forced Migrants: The Case of Syrian Refugee Mothers and Youths in Canada,” examines the temporal experiences and future projections of Syrian refugee mothers and teenagers after their resettlement in Canada.

Maggie O’Neill is Professor in Sociology & Criminology and Director of the Institute for Social Sciences in the 21st Century (ISS21) and UCC Futures: Collective Social Futures. Maggie is based in the Dept of Sociology & Criminology at University College Cork, Ireland. She works on issues of asylum, migration, borders and social justice using feminist, participatory, biographical, walking and arts based methods since the mid 1990s when she conducted AHRB funded participatory research with newly arrived Bosnian communities in the East Midlands, UK. Currently Maggie is PI on an IRC advanced Laureate Research Grant EUROBORDERWALKS with colleagues in the University of Zagreb and the University of Lodz.

Jeremaiah teaches research methods at the University of Santo Tomas (UST) in Manila. He does migration research for a nonprofit thinktank --the Institute for Migration and Development Issues (IMDI)-- as well as for UST. He also does migration journalism.

Meghann Ormond is Associate Professor in Cultural Geography at Wageningen University & Research in The Netherlands. She's deeply invested in and concerned with how differently-mobile people's roots, rights and vulnerabilities are recognised and included in the places they visit and in which they live. Her research focuses mainly on how shifting visions and practices of citizenship and belonging transform transnational mobility, heritage, health and care relationships and practices.

Laura Oso is Full Professor (Catedrática de Universidad) at the Faculty of Sociology, Universidade da Coruña. She is the coordinator of ESOMI (Societies in Movement Research Team). Her research has focused on the study of gender and migration, the integration of female immigrants into the labour market (domestic service, sexual work, ethnic entrepreneurship), transnational families, development and intergenerational relations.

She is Vice-president for International Affairs of the Spanish Federation of Sociology (FES) and Member of the Executive Committee at the International Sociological Association (ISA).

Other studies are also remarkable among her research lines, such as the Spanish emigration in France (female domestic workers and female caretakers, second generation) and the analysis of migrations from the perspective of intergenerational strategies and trajectories for social mobility. She equally works on the gender nexus linking gender, migration and development.
She partakes in competitive International Research Networks. She is an associated member since 2007 of the IMISCOE- International Migration, Integration and Social Cohesion network, being also a member since 2013 of its Board of Directors. She es also a member of the Board of the RN27 - Regional Network Southern European Societies at the European Sociological Association. She has also been a member of COST Action (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) Postpol (IS1209) “Comparing European Prostitution Policies: Understanding Scales and Cultures of Governance”(2013-2017). She has taken part of European projects (H2020-Welcoming Spaces- 870952, H2020- Cross Migration- 770121, Equal Convive Mais”-European Social Fund, SERD-2002-00119-European Commission, Research Directorate General, H2020-Proposal number : 691004-2015-2019) and INCASI ( International Network for Comparative Analysis of Social Inequalities) H2020-Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (RISE). Project Number: 691004.

Ismail Oubad is a Doctoral Researcher within the ERC AdG SOLROUTES Project (Solidarities and Migrants' Routes Across Europe at Large), hosted by the University of Genoa. He is also a Visiting Researcher at the Center for Ethnic and Migration Studies of the University of Liège. Currently his research interest and PhD thesis focus on the solidarity actions and support networks to dwelling and migrants’ border transgression within and across the Belgian borders, adopting ethnographic methods. Previously, Ismail has conducted research on, inter alia, the quest for legalization of Sub-Saharan protection seekers within the asylum determination procedures in Italy.